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I Call Myself a Feminist – do you?

We want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who sent us their favourite feminist quotes back in June. We loved them all, and a few even managed to make their way into the final manuscript of I Call Myself a Feminist. To find out which ones made the cut, you’ll just have to read it . . .

There were so many we enjoyed reading, and not enough space for all of them in the book, so we wanted to share a selection here for you to enjoy too. Thanks for every one of these wonderful suggestions.

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat” Rebecca West #ICallMyselfAFeminist

@ViragoBooks “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem

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Margaret Baxter, via Facebook

One of my favourite quotes is by Simone de Beauvoir ” Let her swim, climb mountain peaks,pilot airplanes,battle against the elements,take risks,go out for adventure, and, she will not feel before the world…timidity.”

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‏@LotusFlowerBook Jun 5

@ViragoBooks “As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking”. Virginia Woolf.

If you missed our call for feminist quotes, don’t worry – there are still so many ways you can get involved with this campaign . . .

1. Look out for the twenty-five contributors, five editors, bloggers, journalists. and Virago and Little, Brown teams tweeting the reasons they call themselves feminists on the hashtag #Icallmyselfafeminist, and join in.

2. Send in questions for the contributors on Wednesday 11th November, when they will be doing a Twitter takeover of @ViragoBooks – again, use the hashtag #Icallmyselfafeminist and they will pick it up on the day.

3. Follow the HUGE #Icallmyselfafeminist blog tour, which kicks off on 5th November.